Re: Outsourcing Forensics

[Samuel Liles <sliles () PURDUE EDU>]

It might be interesting to know what people are considering forensics. Is it
simply imaging disks to preserve evidence, or post incident response to
ascertain what has happened? Something more or less?


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Sam Liles
Purdue University Calumet

-----Original Message-----
From: Cam Beasley [mailto:cam () AUSTIN UTEXAS EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 8:24 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Outsourcing Forensics

We have a forensics lab and trained staff for this function.
We have also identified a local vendor to use in the event we find ourselves
in a situation that might be a conflict of interest or more than we can
taken on..  We haven't had to call on them as of yet..

~cam.


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Cam Beasley CISSP CIFI
University Information Security Officer
Information Security Office
ITS | University of Texas at Austin
cam () austin utexas edu | 512.475.9476




On 8/28/06 2:11 PM, "Bret R Blackman" <bblackma () MAIL UNOMAHA EDU>
articulated:

> How many outsource their forensic work to a U.S. firm when there is an
> incident involving confidential information on their campuses?
>
> Bret R. Blackman
> University of Nebraska at Omaha
> Director of Administrative Information Services
> Information Technology Services, EAB 110
> bblackma () mail unomaha edu